Weinegg is a quarter in

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Geography and demographics

Weinegg was formerly a part of Riesbach municipality, which was incorporated into Zürich in 1893. The quarter has a population of 4,951 distributed on an area of 1.72 km².

Enzenbühl and Rehalp cemeteries

In 1902 ''Enzenbühl'' was, after the old ''Neumünster'' and ''Rehalp'' cemeteries, the third expansion phase for the growing needs of northeastern Zürich. Arnold Geiser, the city's chief engineer, designed an architecturally simple cemetery with longitudinal and transverse axes, surrounded by high, circular walls. At the highest area of the westward sloping plant, Geiser positioned there the abdication chapel that was built in the Gothic Revival style. In 1934 the cemetery grounds have been expanded to its present size. ''Friedhof Enzenbühl'', a cemetery those area is shared with the

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of Zollikon, became the final resting place of some known respectively popular people, among them

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and

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. Friedhof Enzenbühl - Kapelle 2015-11-06 15-51-28.JPG, Enzenbühl, cemetery chapel Friedhof Enzenbühl - Grab César 'Cés' Keiser 2015-11-06 15-48-31.JPG, grave of

Friedhof Enzenbühl - Grab Margrit Rainer, Susanne Gallo-De Santi und Inigo Gallo 2015-11-06 15-58-08.JPG, grave of

and his wife of second marriage Heinrich Federer Grab.jpg, grave of

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Trivia

The fictitious 2007 Swiss mystery film '' Marmorea'' was filmed among others, in the ''

Burghölzli The ''Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich'' (Psychiatric University Hospital Zürich) is a psychiatric hospital in Switzerland. As a research hospital, it is associated with the University of Zürich. It is also called Burghölzli, after th ...

'' sanatory in the Weinegg district, on the

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near

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, at the

Limmatquai ''Limmatquai'' is a street in the Swiss city of Zürich. It is named after the Limmat, and it follows the right-hand (eastern) bank of that river for about through the '' Altstadt'', or historical core, of the city. The street was once important ...

promenade, and on the Münsterbrücke river crossing towards Münsterhof.

Gallery

File:Zürich - Burghölzli - Weinegg.jpg, «Burghölzli» hill (in the middle),

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and Albis chains in the background File:Zürich - Botanischer Garten - Gewächshäuser.jpg, Botanical Garden, Greenhouses, seen from the West File:Zürich - Weinegg Quartierhof IMG 1890.jpg, Estate (Quartierhof) Weinegg

References

External links

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